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• County considers licensing for ride-hailing drivers

  06-10-2015 23:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Clark County commissioners are considering a proposal that would require drivers of ride-hailing companies to get individual business licenses.
  
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• Tesla, UNLV to partner on battery research

  06-10-2015 22:34
  
  LAS VEGAS — Electric car company Tesla is planning to unveil a formal research partnership with the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. UNLV President Len Jessup is scheduled to join a Tesla vice president and Gov. Brian Sandoval for an announcement ceremony on Wednesday at UNLV’s campus. Tesla is planning on funding the research, which will focus on battery manufacturing. Nevada lawmakers approved nearly $1.3 billion in tax incentives last year to attract the car company to the state.
  
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• Carson City Sheriff’s Office: Man arrested on suspicion of passing checks

  06-10-2015 22:34
  
  The following people were booked into the Carson City Jail. All are considered innocent until proven guilty in court.Carson CityMONDAYAt 7:12 a.m., a 53-year-old Carson City man was arrested on suspicion of passing checks without sufficient funds after deputies responded to a civil situation near the 800 block of Sundance Court, Bail was set at $500.At 8:28 a.m., a 35-year-old Carson City man was arrested on suspicion of ex-felon failed to register and two counts of violation of a temporary prot
  
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• Assemblyman Jim Wheeler backs Cruz after Walker dropout

  06-10-2015 22:15
  
  Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz is picking up an endorsement from a former member of Scott Walker’s Nevada campaign team. The Texas senator’s campaign announced this week that Republican Nevada Assemblyman Jim Wheeler is backing him. Wheeler had served as co-chair of Walker’s campaign until the Wisconsin governor dropped out of the race two weeks ago. Cruz is endorsed by members of the most conservative wing of the Nevada Legislature, including Republican Assembly me
  
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• Metro looking for pair that beat, robbed man at ATM

  06-10-2015 22:08 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A man was held at gunpoint, beaten and robbed at an east valley ATM in September, and Las Vegas police need help finding his attackers.
  
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• Hospital bombing by US military another in list of 'collateral damage' — VIDEO

  06-10-2015 21:56 via reviewjournal.com
  
  New details are emerging about the deadly U.S. bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan in what the charity has called a "war crime."
  
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• NATO says Russia's violation of Turkish air space is 'unacceptable'

  06-10-2015 21:49 via reviewjournal.com
  
  NATO on Tuesday rejected Moscow's explanation that its warplanes had violated alliance member Turkey's air space by mistake and said Russia was sending more ground troops to Syria and building up its naval presence.
  
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• Uber driver granted delay in hearing over ride solicitation

  06-10-2015 21:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Uber driver who allegedly asked a plainclothes Nevada Transportation Authority officer if she wanted a ride while not on the Uber platform had his hearing delayed Tuesday.
  
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• Uber driver assessed $2,500 fine for ride solicitation

  06-10-2015 21:37 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The first transportation network company driver to be disciplined by the Nevada Transportation Authority was assessed a $2,500 fine at a hearing Tuesday for offering a ride to a plainclothes enforcement officer while not operating on the Uber platform.
  
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• Western High grad flies career into White House

  06-10-2015 21:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  She has gone from Western High School to the White House with a lot of stops in between during her storied career in the Air Force.
  
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• Edward Snowden says he has offered to go to prison in U.S.

  06-10-2015 21:31 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Edward Snowden says he's offered "many times" to go to prison in the United States as part of a deal to return from exile in Russia but is still waiting for an answer from the American government.
  
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• United Airlines flight rerouted due to unconscious co-pilot

  06-10-2015 21:12 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A United Airlines flight en route San Francisco was rerouted to Albuquerque, New Mexico, because the co-pilot was unconscious, CNN reported on Tuesday.
  
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• After Arkansas cuts payments, Planned Parenthood wants class action status

  06-10-2015 21:04 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Planned Parenthood has sought class action status for its Medicaid patients in Arkansas after a U.S. judge ordered the state to continue payments to three women who challenged Arkansas' move to halt payments to the organization.
  
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• Judge sets bail in Bellagio craps scheme

  06-10-2015 20:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Each of the men were indicted on dozens of counts of cheating at gambling and theft, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney J. P. Raman. But one of the men is expected to plead guilty to one count of felony theft.
  
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• Judge sets bail in $1 million Bellagio craps scheme

  06-10-2015 20:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Each of the men were indicted on dozens of counts of cheating at gambling and theft, according to Chief Deputy District Attorney J. P. Raman. But one of the men is expected to plead guilty to one count of felony theft.
  
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• Sam Nazarian’s SBE Entertainment will no longer manage SLS

  06-10-2015 20:14 via vegasinc.com
  Sam Nazarian, the businessman who led the creation of SLS Las Vegas, is selling his ownership stake in the financially struggling Strip resort and his company will no longer manage the property. San Francisco-based real estate investment firm Stockbridge Capital Partners, which already owns 90 percent of the resort, is buying the 10 percent that Nazarian and ...
  
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• US military close to putting Iron Man on frontlines

  06-10-2015 19:57 via reviewjournal.com
  
  After an American commando died kicking in a door during a raid in Afghanistan, the top commander of U.S. Special Operations vowed to prevent similar tragedies.
  
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• American Airlines pilot who died during flight identified as Utah man

  06-10-2015 19:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An American Airlines pilot that died Monday while flying from Boston to Phoenix has been identified as 57-year-old Michael Johnston of West Jordan, Utah.
  
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• American Airlines pilot that died during flight identified as Utah man

  06-10-2015 19:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  An American Airlines pilot that died Monday while flying from Boston to Phoenix has been identified as 57-year-old Michael Johnston of West Jordan, Utah.
  
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• Oregon gunman spared student's life, called him 'the lucky one'

  06-10-2015 19:07 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The killer called him "the lucky one." For reasons he might never understand, Matthew was chosen to live by the gunman in last week's Oregon community college shooting that left nine people dead.
  
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• Pressure mounts on VW as deadline for answers in emissions scandal looms

  06-10-2015 18:40 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Hans Dieter Poetsch's first board meeting as chairman of Volkswagen on Wednesday could turn out to be his most important, coming just hours before a deadline set by German regulators and testimony by the company's top U.S. executive in Congress.
  
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• BP to pay out $20 billion in Deepwater Horizon settlement claims

  06-10-2015 17:54 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Oil giant BP will pay out more than $20 billion to settle claims against it for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.
  
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• Philadelphia community college on lock down after report of gunman on campus

  06-10-2015 17:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Community College of Philadelphia was on lockdown on Tuesday following reports of a person with a weapon on campus, police said.
  
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• Gunman responsible for Philadelphia college lock down arrested

  06-10-2015 17:11 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Community College of Philadelphia was on lock down Tuesday morning after police received a report that a man pulled a gun on a student.
  
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• Man in wheelchair dies after being struck by truck Monday night

  06-10-2015 16:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A 65-year-old man in a wheelchair died after he was struck by a truck while crossing a central valley street Monday night, police say.
  
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• Caskets float away, apartments looted in wake of South Carolina floods

  06-10-2015 15:50 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The rain may have stopped, but South Carolina is grappling with a host of new concerns: Dam breaks. Billions of dollars in damage. And rivers that still haven't crested yet. A new study shows the price of electricity will increase if NV Energy builds its own new natural gas power plant
  
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• Nevada Day Treasurer Hunt Clue 2

  06-10-2015 15:03
  
  At Captain Jim’s petitionThese palisades were allottedNow it is their missionTo watch over where treasure is spottedMonday’s clue 1, posted at nevadaappeal.comAs we celebrate this State’s culturesWe are grateful for the opportunityTo carry on this tradition For our community…
  
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• New NV Energy power plant would raise customers' rates, study shows

  06-10-2015 09:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Southern Nevada utility customers will pay more for electricity if NV Energy is allowed to build its own new 706 megawatt natural gas power plant rather than continue to purchase energy from existing plants, an analysis released Tuesday shows.
  
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• Study shows cacti at risk of extinction

  06-10-2015 08:24 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Almost a third of cactuses are at risk of extinction because of threats including illegal trade and a spread of farms in arid areas, making the spiny plants among the most vulnerable species, scientists said on Monday.
  
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• Pedestrian fatally struck at Maryland Parkway, Desert Inn

  06-10-2015 08:22 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A person in a wheelchair was fatally struck by a truck in the central valley Monday night, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• Philadelphia woman sentenced in kidnapping, assault of 5-year-old girl

  06-10-2015 08:13 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman who wore traditional Muslim dress to pose as the mother of a 5-year-old girl so she could take the child from a Philadelphia school and sexually assault her was sentenced on Monday to 40 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.
  
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• Carson City Literacy Volunteers seeking new space

  06-10-2015 08:07
  
  Literacy Volunteers, a non-profit Carson City tutoring program now at 430 Jeanell Drive, is looking for new office space.Jan Whitemore, executive director of the 501(c)3 program, said that FISH (Friends In Service Helping) owns the structure that houses the program and the building will be razed beginning on Nov. 1. She said that FISH intends to erect low-income housing on the site and informed Literacy Volunteers that the program had to vacate soon. She said originally she had thought she had u
  
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• Pope says Church should change instead of being 'museum'

  06-10-2015 08:06 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Pope Francis told a Roman Catholic meeting on family issues on Monday that the Church should not be a stuffy "museum of memories" but have the courage to change if that was what God wanted.
  
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• 1.8 million boxes of gluten-free Cheerios recalled

  06-10-2015 08:02 via reviewjournal.com
  
  General Mills Inc is recalling 1.8 million boxes of gluten-free Cheerios cereal because they may contain wheat, which can cause adverse reactions in people with gluten allergies.
  
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• Resilient beaver-like mammal thrived after dinosaurs died

  06-10-2015 08:01 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The world had been wrecked. An asteroid impact in Mexico compounded by colossal volcanism in India 66 million years ago had killed about three-quarters of Earth's species including the dinosaurs. But relatively soon afterward, a plucky critter that looked like a beaver was thriving.
  
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• L.A. to pay nearly $3 million over death of man in custody

  06-10-2015 07:55 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Attorneys for the city of Los Angeles have agreed to pay $2.85 million to the family of a black grandfather who died in police custody after being shot with an electric stun gun and placed in a choke hold, according to court records.
  
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• Settlement reached in Nevada busing of mental patients to California

  06-10-2015 07:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  The Nevada Department of Health and Human Services reached a $400,000 settlement with the City of San Francisco over Nevada's busing of indigent mental patients to the city in years past.
  
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• Book aims to set record straight in Tammy Meyers' slaying

  06-10-2015 05:26 via reviewjournal.com
  
  It's been nearly eight months since Tammy Meyers, a 44-year-old mother of four, was gunned down in front of the family's northwest valley driveway.
  
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• Gun safety group urges White House action

  06-10-2015 05:14 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A gun safety group urged the White House on Monday to take a series of steps it said would help prevent the kind of mass shooting that killed 10 people at an Oregon community college last week and renewed the debate on gun control.
  
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• Woman dies when truck plows through wall

  06-10-2015 04:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police are investigating a fatal crash in the central valley that may have been intentional.
  
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• Metro: Man intentionally hits woman with truck, crashes into house

  06-10-2015 04:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Las Vegas police said a man intentionally struck a woman with a truck before crashing through a wall and into a central valley house Monday night.
  
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• Metro homicide detectives investigating woman's death after car crashed into house

  06-10-2015 04:30 via reviewjournal.com
  
  A woman is dead after a car crashed through a wall and into a house, and it may have been intentional, according to Las Vegas police.
  
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• A look inside the secret world of teens and social media

  06-10-2015 04:05 via reviewjournal.com
  
  "I would rather not eat for a week than get my phone taken away. It's really bad," said Gia, a13-year-old. "I literally feel like I'm going to die."
  
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• Henderson, North Las Vegas plan to share license-plate data

  06-10-2015 03:41 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Police in Henderson and North Las Vegas could soon begin sharing more than a million records of drivers' whereabouts collected using automated license-plate readers.
  
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• Nevada Supreme Court hears arguments in Judge Ramsey recall case

  06-10-2015 03:33 via reviewjournal.com
  
  Nevada Supreme Court justices heard arguments Monday about whether or not a recall against an embattled North Las Vegas Municipal Court judge should go forward.
  
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• Hop and Mae Adams Foundation buys key parking lot

  06-10-2015 02:47
  
  A complete makeover of the old Citibank downtown now will include sufficient parking to meet Carson City government requirements.The Hop and Mae Adams Foundation, which owns the building being converted into retailing, offices and apartments with an additional floor, has purchased the parking lot to the south to accommodate the need.“We needed to come up with sufficient parking,” said Miya MacKenzie, local spokesperson for the foundation. “We were able to buy that lot.”T
  
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• Free medical services offered to Carson City residents

  06-10-2015 02:31
  
  The Remote Area Medical group is hosting a day of free medical services to Carson City residents Oct. 16-18.The RAM group, in conjunction with Partnership Carson City, will be helping residents who are uninsured or under insured get free dental, vision and medical services such as mammograms, diabetic screenings and more.“We are discovering that a lot of people in Carson City don’t have adequate health insurance and we are seeing that the first things to drop are vision and dental,&r
  
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• NASA just released thousands of photos from the Apollo missions

  06-10-2015 02:27 via reviewjournal.com
  
  If you've ever been interested in seeing the Apollo missions in ways you've never even dreamed of, the Project Apollo Archive might be for you.
  
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• Man taken to Reno hospital after motorcycle vs. car crash

  06-10-2015 02:23
  
  One man was flown to Renown Regional Medical Center following a motorcycle and vehicle crash Monday afternoon.The crash occurred at 2:35 p.m. at the Carson Street and College Parkway intersection when a vehicle tried to turn left on a green light and crashed into a motorcycle traveling the opposite direction. Officers said they are unsure why the motorcycle didn’t stop at the light. CareFlight airlifted the man to the hospital, though no serious injuries are suspected. Officers on scene sa
  
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• Gasoline price drop continues in Nevada

  06-10-2015 02:15
  
  Nevada gasoline prices at the pump fell 4 cents a gallon in the past week to $2.90, while Carson City prices remained well below that level.Those were the results reported Monday by GasBuddy.com, a website that monitors the cost of fuel at the local, state and national levels. Nationally, the average cost for gasoline blipped up a half cent per gallon to $2.29.In Carson City, the two dozen outlets surveyed on Monday were charging from $2.43 per gallon on the low end to $2.75 at the highest level
  
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